When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Living Quotes

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most...

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most...

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in...

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in...

Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated...

Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated...

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they...

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they...

Money confounds subordination.

Money confounds subordination.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be...

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be...

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call...

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call...

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect...

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect...

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd

A jest breaks no bones

A jest breaks no bones

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to...

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to...

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will...

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will...

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

No man was ever great by imitation.

No man was ever great by imitation.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write....

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write....